Johnston high school student accused of assaulting classmate

Garrett Dean Freeman, 16, of Tamworth Drive in Willow Spring, was charged last week with assault inflicting serious injury after, Johnston County sheriff's investigators say, he attacked another student in the stairwell of the school.

The student suffered a broken nose and an internal injury to his shoulder, in addition to multiple cuts on his face, authorities said.

Investigators haven't offered a possible motive for the attack.